Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-07-09

need not only to bring down the game.
Out bring it in. | think one OF the
most beautiful pictures of Thorwaldsen
is his autumn" 1t represents a
sportsman coming home and standing
over his shoulder, aud on the otner end
of that staff are hung a rabbit and IA
brace of birds. Every hunter bring.
nome the game. No one would think
Of bringing down a reindeer or whip
ping up a stream for trout and letting
them lie in the woods. At eventide
the camp is adorned with the treasures
Of the forest-beak, and fin, and an
tier.
If you 90 out to hunt for immortal
souls, o only bring them down under
the arrow of the Gospel. but bring
them into the church of God, the grand
home and encampment we have pitched
this side the skies. Fetch them in, do
not let them lie out in the open field.
They need our prayers, and sym
pathies, and help. That is the mean
ing of the church Of God-hclp. q We
hunters for the Lord! not only bring
down the game, but bring 1T in.
If Mithridates liked hunting so well
that for seven years he V went in
doors, what enthusiasm ought we to
have who are hunting for immortal
souls! Ii
DONITIAN
Practiced archery until he could stand
a boy down in the Roman amphithea-
ter, with a hand out, the fingers out
stretched, and then the king could
shoot an arrow between the fingers
without wounding them, to what drill
and what practice ought not We to
subject ourselves in order to become
spiritual archers and mighty hunters
before the Lord!' But let nv say,
you will never work any better than
you pray. The archers took the hoN,
put one end OF it down beside the foot.
elevated the other end, and it was the
rule that the bow should be just the
size of the archer; If it were jlst his
size, then he would 90 into the battle
with confidence. Let me say that your
power 10 project good in the world
will correspond exactly to your swn
spiritual stature. In other words, the
first thing, in preparation for christian
work, IL personal conservation.
'Oh for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heavenly frame,
A light TO shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb"
! am sure that there are some here
who at some time have been hit by the
gospel arrow. You felt the wound of
that conviction, and you plunged into
the world deeper; just as the stag, when
the hounds are after it, plunges into
Scroon lake, expecting in that way to
escape.
JESUS CHRIST
is on your track to-day impatient man!
not in wrath, but in mercy. Oh, We
chased and painting souls. here is the
stream of Gods mercy and salvation,
where you may cool your thirst Stop
that chase of sin to-day. BY the red
fountain that leaped from the heart of
my Lord | bid you stop. There is
mercy for you-mercy that pardons;
mercy that heals; everlasting mercy.
Is there in all this house anyone who
can refuse the offer that comes from
the heart of the dying Son of Godp
There is a forest in Germany, a
place they call the Deer Leap'-two
crags about eighteen yards apart. be-
tween a fearful chasm. This is called
the deer Leap" because once a
hunter was on the track of a deer; ii
came to one of these crags; there was
no escape for it from the pursuit of the
hunter, and in utter despair it gathered
itself up, and in the
DEATH AGONY
attempted to jump across. OF course,
it fell. and was dashed On the rocks
far beneath. Here is IA path to heaven.
1t is plain; it Is safe. Jesus marks it
out for every man to walk in. But
here is a man who says: II won't
walk in that path; | will take my own
way He comes on up until he con-
fronts the chasm that divides his soul
from heaven. Now, his last hour has
come. and he resolves that he will leap
that chasm, from the heights of earth
to the heights of heaven. Stand back,
now, and give him full swing. Tor no
soul ever did that successfully. Let
him try. Jump! Jump! He misses
the mark, and he goes down, depth be-
low depth. destroyed without rem
edy.' Men! angels. devils! what
shall we call that place of awful catas-
trophe? Let it be known forever as
The Sinners Death Leap"
1t is said that when Charlemagne's
host was overpowered by the three
armies of the Saracens in the Pass of
Roncesvalles, his warrior, Roland, in
terrible earnestness, seized a trumpet
and blew it with such terrific strength
that the opposing army reeled back in
terror; but at the third blast Of the
trumpet it broke in two. | see your
SOUL FIERCELY AsSAILED
by all the powers of earth and hell. /
put the mightier trumpet Of the Cos
pei to my lips; and l blow it three
times. Blast the first-"Whosoever
will, let him come" Blast the second
-"Seek We the Lord while he may be
found" Blast the third-"Now is the
accepted time; now is the day Of sal